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Potosi, Potosí Department
Cerro Rico de Potosi silver
Mineral locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokensAlso reported: andorite, cassiterite, pyrargyrite, wavellite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Miocene epithermal veins
Cerro Rico funded the Spanish empire; still mined by cooperatives
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